# Foldable Robotics Day Camp 2023

• ASU Polytechnic Campus
• Registration Opening March 15, 2023
• Early Registration Ends May 15, 2023
• June 12-16, 2023, 9am-4pm each day.
• $275 per student ($300 after May 15)
• Open to Students entering grades 7-12 (ages 12-17)

In this exciting hands-on, day camp, participants will be introduced to the principles of robot design through origami – the art of paper folding – to prototype, ideate, and get a hands-on sense of the physics of robots.

## Topics

Participants will learn:

• how to use the biological world as a source of inspiration for designing robots, and how to translate those principles into a set of engineering design goals.
• how to ideate, prototype, and synthesize robotic devices through folded mechanisms, and how force, torque, and motion can be tuned through these structures to make robots move better.
• Coding a microcontroller to generate motion with an RC servo-motor.
• how to take real-world data from a foldable robot and use physical models to improve robot performance

This week-long, hands-on, project-based approach will emphasize problem identification, brainstorming, problem solving, rapid prototyping, teamwork, and communication. The camp will culminate with a final build – that students can program to move through the environment – along with a Friday afternoon exposition for parents.

Students will be able to take their development kits home with them at the end of the week. Example parts & materials include:

• Programmable microcontroller